John Duncan: Bonfires | 
 enlarge | Authors: Colin Graham, Mary Warner Marien, John Duncan
Publisher: Steidl & Partners
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Sales Rank: 1266782
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 72
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 11.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 3865217265
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865217264
ASIN: 3865217265
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
In Bonfires, photographer John Duncan documents the long-standing Protestant tradition of bonfire building--part of the annual July 11 celebration commemorating the defeat of James Stuart at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690--in his native Belfast. The large structures on which the fires are lit serve as a powerful assertion of Protestant identity and signal a sense of community solidarity. Duncan's photographs frame these structures against Belfast's changing urban landscape, revealing the deep divisions that, despite political progress, still affect Northern Ireland long after the cease-fires. Duncan's images reveal the expressive, jerry-rigged constructions that are lit to create the fires. They recall all manner of real and mythic architecture, from high-rise apartment buildings to military watchtowers, gun emplacements, the Empire State Building or the Tower of Babel.
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